Picasa is a free graphics utility for viewing and editing images. Easy to use, has an attractive and user-friendly interface in which intuitive functions and tools are built. Suitable for those users who want to quickly prepare their photos for publication in galleries and social networks, creating slide shows. In 2004 was acquired by Google.

After installation is complete, the program prompts you to find images on your computer. You can specify the folders to search, as well as the formats of the desired files. Picasa supports the following photo formats: .ipg, .bmp, .fig, .png, .raw, .webp, .tiff and .tga. If necessary, you can back up images and photos stored on your computer.

Although Google has stopped releasing updates for Picasa since 2016, it can still be installed on Windows, on devices with Mac OS software (English version only).

 IZArc is extremely easy to use!

To open the archive, simply double-click (or, if you are working in web-style, click once) on the archive specified in "My Computer" or in Windows Explorer, drag the archive to IZArc or use the standard "Open" dialog box. The main IZArc window contains a list with the names and sizes of all files in the open archive. This list can be scrolled and sorted by any field. A customizable toolbar provides quick access to frequently used actions. Extensive context-sensitive help is always available.

The Windows Drag and Drop interface is fully supported - you can drag and drop files from IZArc to other applications or simply to Windows Explorer to extract them to a specific directory. IZArc will extract the files before placing them in the target application. The destination application will process the files as if they were deleted from My Computer or from Windows Explorer. You can also delete archives in IZArc to open them, or delete files in IZArc to add them to an open or new archive.

 Switch Off is a universal program for working with a computer at a distance. The program is free - this means that all the functionality of the program is open to the user for use and he will not have to pay for anything. The author himself calls his application "lightweight software." Which, by the way, is true.

Switch Off is really small and does not have special software requirements for your computer, which is why this program can be installed on all Windows updates, starting from Windows 2000 and ending with the latest version of Windows 10.

Speaking about the functionality of the program, you might think that it will be limited, but this is not so. The program provides remote access to your computer through a closed web interface, that is, access to the computer will be protected by a password that the user will set. This feature is provided by the integrated HTTP server. You can control the computer from the phone or from another computer.

Now a lot of text editors have been developed, but this article will focus on the Google Docs document editing server. The utility provided by Google is completely free. The functionality of the program is fully open to the user. Even because the program is free, there is no advertising in it, and this is a huge plus.

Google Docs has a large set for editing text, highlighting some areas using markers, as in a notebook. The user is given unlimited access to all the fonts that are presented in the application. In addition, you can easily insert hyperlinks and photos, create your own drawings and tables.

It is worth noting that the program provides offline access to documents. That is, the user can work and modify their documents without connecting to the Internet. Most recently, many application developers have begun to add a special feature to their applications. Surely many have heard of her.

 Wise Care 365 is an advanced toolkit designed to protect user privacy and optimize the operating system. It checks the entire computer for various elements that need optimization or may cause security problems when using the computer.

Wise Care 365 cleans, defragments and optimizes the registry, as well as completely deletes personal data of users to prevent their subsequent recovery by other specialized tools. In addition, it improves stability and speeds up the launch of the operating system.

The program’s functionality also allows you to find special modules for cleaning the hard disk from unused and unnecessary files and from any traces of user activity (history of visited websites, recently opened documents, etc.). Wise Care 365 defragments all created system partitions and manages memory.

 Gravit Designer is a free and multi-platform tool for creating and editing vector graphics, which is an interesting alternative to InkScape or Adobe Illustrator.

The application is characterized by high speed, a sophisticated graphical interface, and is focused mainly on novice users, but it will also be interesting for experienced users, offering them wide functionality to perform various tasks. This tool offers a basic palette of tools for creating curves and shapes, drawing, scaling and aligning. It has a rich library of fonts and ready-to-use templates, and supports the formats GVDESIG (proprietary), SVG, SVGZ, PDF, EPS and SKETCH and allows you to export projects to image files PDF and JPG.

Gravit Designer can be successfully used as a tool that supports the work of various types of graphic designers and web designers. Thanks to the support of the layer mechanism, it can also be used to create slightly more complex projects. With its help, the user can create, among other things, various types of logos, business cards, posters, greeting cards, etc. It follows that he is indispensable when working in the advertising field, again, both for beginners and professionals in this modern direction trade.

 In the process of daily operation of disk devices, memory cards, flash drives and other means of storing information, it becomes necessary to deeply format them. In this case, one must always remember the inevitability of the complete loss of information stored on the medium. For such a case, in addition to the built-in, external software is developed that is released to the market by third parties.

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is one of the technical software utilities that will allow you to not only format any storage medium, but also create a USB flash drive for loading the operating system. The advantages of this small utility include the fact that it does not require direct installation on a computer but works with drives via USB ports. It has all the standard tools for working with disks (selecting the disk needed to format, specifying a name and renaming a drive, maintaining existing file systems, etc.) included in the tool built into OS Windows. To work with the utility as a boot device, you need to set the priority boot flag in the BIOS Setup.

ALLPlayer is a multimedia player from ALLPlayer Group Ltd (Polish developers). It was created in 1998. Since then it has been constantly updated and is in great demand.

General description

The name is consistent with the content. The player downloads and allows you to view almost any video content. The program is licensed by Freeware, i.e. free, although you will have to pay for downloading the missing codecs when using it.

The player has an intuitive interface even for a beginner, and the option allows to some extent improve the playback file. The program requires minimal system resources, weighs about 50 MB. Suitable for almost all users of Windows computers (including Windows 10, XP and Vista), owners of Android phones and tablets, and owners of "apple devices".

There is no portable version. In some languages localization is rather weak.

 PeaZip - is a free cross-platform portable program that performs the functions of an archiver, and serves as a graphical shell for other archivers. Available under the GNU GLP license.

PeaZip was compiled in Lazaruse and written in Free Paskal. At the same time, this program is distributed only on Windows and Linux, and at the same time as the installation packages (exe files), and in versions that do not change the operating system, such versions are called portable.

This archiver also supports its own .pea file format, as well as other file formats, for which it in most cases uses external programs and libraries.

The project is available on SourceForge.net from where, as of 2017, it has already been downloaded six million times, at that time the program had existed for 11 years, while the number of downloads is constantly increasing.

Ashampoo ZIP Free is a simplified and free version of the application designed to compress and decompress files on Windows, supporting more than 30 of the most popular archive formats (ZIP, 7-ZIP, CAB, TAR, RAR, ZIPX, ARJ, ARC, ACE, MSI, DMG and many others).

In addition to the main functions of archives (creating and extracting content), the program is equipped with tools that allow you to create self-extracting SFX archives (.exe), restore damaged ZIP files, and also use multi-volume recording (breaking archives into smaller parts). Ashampoo ZIP Free integrates with the system shell, and the graphical interface used belongs to the modern user interface and can conveniently work on touch devices. It is multiplatform that makes this program one of the most popular among archivers, because the ease of use and intuitive interface are suitable for most users of any age category.

For more demanding users, the manufacturer provides a commercial version of Ashampoo ZIP Pro. In addition to the functions of free editing, this program also offers the ability to encrypt data, create virtual disks, convert archives, etc. Advanced functionality combined with open source allows professional users to fully use the functions and capabilities provided by this tool.